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Recent Examples of tetrameterThis task — writing a poem about a worm in anapestic tetrameter, a very specific and satisfyingly arcane poetic meter — is a challenging one, but ChatGPT was the clear winner, followed by a distant grouping of Bing then Bard.—James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.
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Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Putting Vice and the Bard in the same sentence sounds sacrilegious, but the movie paints Lynne Cheney as a Lady MacBeth type and requires Adams to recite iambic pentameter about Dick’s capacity to usurp some of George W. Bush’s authority.
Crypto Is Too Big To Ignore One clear implications of this movement in OCC policy, especially when take in conjunction with other policy adjustments so far in 2025, is that the crypto sector is becoming too big to ignore.
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Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
This is why breathing mechanics are critical — your breath drives rib movement, and rib movement allows for better spinal rotation.
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